Friction Quartet teams up with a group of vocalist for the premiere of new works by composers Nick Benavides, Danny Clay, Noah Luna, and Mark Winges*. Each of these new works draws inspiration from an artist that died young: the great Hank Williams, charismatic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, bebop legend Charlie Parker, and the American poet Joe Bolton.
This project is made possible by the generosity of George
Hopkins, Russ Irwin, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and the
Zellerbach Foundation.
When: Sunday, December 4 @ 7:30
PM
Where: The Women's Building
3543 18th St.
San Francisco,
California
Program:
Trying to play
clean - Nick Benavides
no more darkness, no more night
- Danny Clay
On this coast without a shore - Noah Luna
The Moon Dreams of Jacqueline*
- Mark Winges
*
Tickets:
At the door: $20 general / $10 under 30
Advance: $18/ $9 via
BPT
*
Vocal Quartet:
Amy Foote, soprano
Molly Mahoney, mezzo
soprano
Michael Desnoyers, tenor
Sidney Chen, bass
* Lyrics
"A veces la luna plena/Sometimes the Full Moon"
poem by Rafael Jesús González
poem by Rafael Jesús González
----A veces la luna
plena
---------------a
Elena
A veces la luna plena
es
tan fría que no parece
merecer ser tan bella.
Pero hay noches
en que la datura amarilla
con su perfume espeso
e presta a la luna color y calor.
Esas noches es testigo la luna
de que lo que hemos bailado
ni la muerte nos puede quitar.
A veces la luna plena
es tan bella que no parece
merecer ser tan fría.
----------------*
merecer ser tan bella.
Pero hay noches
en que la datura amarilla
con su perfume espeso
e presta a la luna color y calor.
Esas noches es testigo la luna
de que lo que hemos bailado
ni la muerte nos puede quitar.
A veces la luna plena
es tan bella que no parece
merecer ser tan fría.
----------------*
----Sometimes the Full Moon
------------------for
Elena
Sometimes the full moon
Is so cold that it seems
not to deserve being so beautiful.
But some nights
the yellow datura
with its dense perfume
lends color & warmth to the moon.
The moon is witness, those nights,
that what we have danced
not even death can take from us.
Sometimes the full moon
is so beautiful that it seems
not to deserve being so cold.
------------© Rafael Jesús González 2016
(La musa
lunática/The Lunatic Muse,
Pandemonium Press, Berkeley 2009)
Pandemonium Press, Berkeley 2009)
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